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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






2. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






3. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






4. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






5. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






6. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






7. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






8. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






9. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






10. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






11. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






12. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






13. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






14. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






15. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






16. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






17. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






18. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






19. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






20. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






21. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






22. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






23. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






24. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






25. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






26. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






27. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






28. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






29. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






30. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






31. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






32. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






33. A product - result or service generated by a process






34. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






35. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






36. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






37. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






38. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






39. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






40. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






41. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






42. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






43. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






44. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






45. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






46. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos






47. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






48. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






49. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






50. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.